I have been having problems with the dual viar compressors draining my battery over time so I decided i am going to run all accessories off of a second battery. On Tuesday I should receive my cole hersee 140 amp battery isolator. So today I tinkered a little with the truck.įirst I installed a second battery mount in the bed. I will just post on here anything I do from now on. Now I have a trunk and can still see the work I welded some brackets and then tacked it in there. I still wanted to be able to see the frame work done so I decided to use chicken diamond wire. I also decided to make a trunk area under my raised bed. We will see how it looks later not sure about it just bored. I then drilled a small hole to insert a set screw. I cut the screw shaft off and then drilled out the rest of the screw. I'm working on doing same thing with dash knobs. I grinder down a little rubber piece that came with them and used it like a little bearing to hold screw still from jiggling. My fiancé told me how ugly my window roll up handles we're so I decided to make them cooler! I bought 2 drawer knobs and kinda rigged them and they look great and work better than the ones before. Today I went to a female story called Anthropology and noticed they had some cool cabinet and drawer knobs. Someone had painted almost entire thing white so I used acetone and cleaned off everything I wanted to be chrome using Q tips. I then cleaned up the horn ring I found which was covered in over spray. I filled all cracks with jb weld and then sanded, primered, painted and clear coated the wheel. I used bondo originally but then changed to jb weld after advised on here. I decided to try my skills which are non existint. Next thing I did was FINALLY after looking for months found the original custom cab steering wheel. Less than $100 I did my entire cab with 2 layers and inside the doors with 2 layers. I decided to try this stuff I saw at lowes called PEEL AND SEAL. I decided Dynomat would be great until I saw the price. Next I decided my truck Rattled to Much and was too loud. I have a chrome oil filter cover just haven't installed yet. I bought new air filter, new fuel lines and filer, and engine paint. Next was on to cleaning up my nasty engine. Also had to move wheel tubs up to lay truck. Then welded bracketing and installed the planks with bolts through the metal supports. I stained them and Polly urethaned the planks. I am going with a TCI mustang 2 front end( to replace the crap I have now )in the near future.Īfter bagging it I decided I needed to cover the massive step notch in the bed so I could carry my motor bikes. The rear is parallel 4 linked with pan hard bar and massive step notch. Anyway, I went disc brakes and power steering. For all that don't know I'm in a LAW SUIT OVER THE FRONT SET UP. I then decided I'm done with the shitty ride. Also painted rims black and added 3.5 inch wide white walls Second thing I did was flip leafs over axle in rear WITHOUT NOTCH and 3inch SIDS drop axle upfront. Threw in a cd player after learning it was not original stereo anyway. I also did the visors and door panels off white as well. I chose black carpet so it doesn't show dirt and chose off white bench seat to match the front bumper. I searched high and low on the Internet and after 4 or 5 months of looking for one with the color and "patina" I wanted I found my truck on a farm in Dinuba Cali(outside Fresno) and shipped it back to Los Angeles.įirst thing I did was rip out seats and have upholstery redone and carpet added. It started when I saw this truck and decided I wanted a 1959 ford f100 I have several threads out there but not an official build thread so I figured today I would create one that I can constantly update instead of tons of small threads.
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